McFarland police don’t respond to calls at detention centers, citing agreement with GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim.
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Rogelio Bolufé is a Cuban national who faced ongoing retaliation for organizing against inhumane conditions inside detention camps.
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Delaney Hall operator GEO Group believes it has qualified immunity.
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The list of one judge’s ‘mega master’ hearings was so long on Monday that it nearly reached the floor. The violence in Delaney Hall illustrates what may await immigrants.
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Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor strike and a hunger strike, refusing to perform the jobs that keep the place running.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has again blocked the Trump administration from transferring transgender women in federal custody into men’s prisons, extending emergency protections in a lawsuit that has become one of the country’s most significant legal fights over the treatment of transgender prisoners under President Donald Trump’s second administration.
U.S. District Judge Royce C.…
The administration is eroding the last line of oversight for immigration detention as it spends $1.3 billion on renovating a pair of warehouses to imprison even more immigrants.
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Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.
The Trump administration is facing a new federal lawsuit accusing the Justice Department of illegally dismantling protections meant to shield transgender incarcerated people from sexual abuse.
Filed on Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit challenges a December 2025 Justice Department memorandum directing prisons and federal auditors to disregard portions of the Prison…
The infamous prison was closed two years ago following revelations of rampant sexual abuse.
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The last Correctional Investigator, Ivan Zinger, left in protest in January, and so far government hasn’t moved to fill his position.
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The President of Venezuela has reportedly been stuck in a unit for high-profile inmates, known for housing rappers and tech moguls, while his country forms an uneasy relationship with Trump.
NEW ORLEANS — Outside, along Claiborne Avenue in the Algiers section of New Orleans, Sunday looked familiar. Black children slurped snowballs in the street, adults danced around them, and Black riders eased their horses through the crowds, past corner stores and shotgun houses, hooves clapping against the asphalt. For Black riders like Robert Pollar, who […]
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The Trump administration has ordered federal prisons to begin tapering hormone therapy for incarcerated transgender people. Physicians say that it could inflict immediate psychological distress and long-term medical harm on a vulnerable population.
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The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison routinely sexually assaulted immigrants.
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